Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-06-10

show in regard to it. VIII send more
soon. Yours, etc,
ALLEN w. THOMSON.
COLCHESTER, VT, Sept. I, 1875.
Dear Sir Yours of Aug. "a received
and was mislaid, or | should have an
swered it sooner. Ira Allen was foaled
June l, 1852, sire Flying Morgan. He
was 10 hands high, weighed from 975 to
1000 lbs; color, dapple brown, black
name and tail, one white hind foot and
ankle, small star in forehead.
His dam was light bay mare, Is 1-2
hands high and weighed $50 lbs. was
sired by Bellfounder, descendant of
Green Mountain and Woodbury. Morgan.
His grandam was by the DubOise horse.
from a fast trotting mare from New
Hampshire, pedigree unknown.
raised lra's dam. She was four when
she brought Ira, and raised two good
colts afterwards, one of them good
trotter by Flying Morgan. Ira's colts
resembled Ethan's very much. but We're
some larger more rangy. They were usu-
ally dark colOred. but | remember two or
three sorrel ones with hind feet white.
certainly think Ethan Allen was by Fly
ing Morgan. His Flying Morgan stock.
without an exception, a. far as | have
tNtl Sttl Ndllu lhNt SttH u
colts and horses. reSembled Ethan much
more than they did Ira or his stock. Ira
took his form. constitution ana best quail
titles from his dam. have raised twenty
good horses from the same stock. all SUI
perior in action and gait. some of them
fast. Flying Morgan had no sorrel colts
that recollcct. but do not know. You
may have seen account of RiptOn Boy
that died last year of hydrophobia. He
was by Ira, and had Il record of : ~. Ira
| had record of 2 Is. and | have driven
him half mile in 10. Remember me
to A. j. Crane. and say to him saw Bis
marck trot Yesterday at Essex. but he
did not win.
write this for my father, VIM.
b. Mundson, who owned Ira, but | al
ways drove him.
Yours very truly,
WIN. b. MUNpsoN.
COLCHESTER. VT. Dec. 6, 1875.
Dem II send you after so long Il
time. II statement from the son of the
owner and raiser of Bellfounder. | sent
bin the questions that you asked. and he
has taken pains to answer them by writ
ing for information to several parties ut
Il distance. Hoping it will prove to be
what you require. ! am yours,
WV. ID. MUNDsON.
November. 1879.
Was named Morgan Bellfounder be-
cause he had Morgan sire, dam Bell
founder. He was bred and owned by
Alfred b. Allen. Colchester, VT He was
three years old when he sired Ira Allen,
dam. He sired about three hundred colts
when we owned him. His stock was good
matured early, and was sold and taken
away when four or five years old.
He was sired by the Putnam Morgan
in lS35. His dam. Seneca Page says. in
n letter dated May 20, 1899. Bedford. G.
+. P. %: IL bought the mare Kate in
lSl5 at Quebec in the summer, She was
then years old past. and said to be by
imp. Bellioundcr, color chestnut. with
star, lG - hands high and weighed when
in good condition 200 pounds" My
father claimed her full English.
The testimony a. to Bellfoundcr's dan
is entirely of verbal character from
Messrs. Potter. Page, Dean and Stark
all of whom are now dead.
The characteristics of Kate were sucl
that no horse fancier would hesitate in
calling her thoroughbred English mare
Her color, build and speed answers the
English horse Bellfounder. She died il
the spring of lS45, aged 81 years. Faith
er bought her in 1891. Bellfounder wa,
foaled June ). 1896. and was sold in the
spring of ls4S.
Yours fraternally.
West Milton. Vt. ARTHUR \. ALLEN
COLCHESTER, VT, Jan, 1877.
Dcdr Sir Il am sorry that | cannot
give you statistics of what you wish
When we had Ira Allen the summaries OF
races We're not noticed and preserved a:
they are now, especially up in this par
of the state. and have no papers at al
with any of his performances. Neither
have we any pictures of him whatever
We were not horscmen, but plain farm
ers, and never thought it necessary t,
preserve or obtain any such things.
can only give you Il statement of som,
of his races, but cannot give the dates
but know | drove him from 1857 Il
1862, when he died. except that \. J
Merrill drove him in two races with Blacl
Diamond in Canada the summer of 1862
lie beat Plato at the Vermont STATE
Fair at Burlington, in 1888 or 1859; hes
time, = :3S.
lie trOtted race the same year for Sl5l
al Malone, y. y, against st. Lawrenc,
Maid and Tom Jefferson, winning il
straight heats; best time, , II.
L Ilf ltAl Ntth llt lIOlltu 1T canton
y. Y. for $50, against Tom Jefferson
st. Lawrence Maid and Dick Ten Brock
winning in straight heats; best time
2;37.
\ few days after he trotted race il
the mud at Ogdensburg, n. Y, for s2jl
against Black Diamond and Dick Tel
Brock. Black Diamond won the first hea
in , :4G, Dick Ten Brock the second ant
third in 2:1l. The fourth heat deaC
heat in ? :lG. Ira won the fifth. sixth
and seventh in , ~. , Al and :.}S.
Ira trotted at Middlebury, VT, agains
the stallion Greyhound, from Nergennes
for $50 and beat him twenty rods, in , "a
The judges then asked me to drive lr
alone, which | did without break il
, %. That was the only time he wa
ever on good clay track, and he coul'
have trotted it in , % easily without
skip.
When he was coming six | drove hin
half-mile and six feet on the ice at Nal
let's Bay in 10.
He trotted at Charleston, n. H., agains